Crushed Wings

Finding the strength through the impossible

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Drama
Crime

Overview

Ria, a seven-year-old girl growing up in a village, is led by her mother to a place where a group of women from her community await her. Here she is mutilated by an unqualified cutter, who completes the cultural FGM-ritual that ensures she will one day be taken as a wife. The child, once old enough, goes on to be forcibly married and moved away from her family to the England. Eventually, Ria seeks help in escaping the life she is trapped in, but the life of her two younger sisters hang in the balance. Can she change her elders' minds and prevent them from being led down the same path? Or will they become three more of 200 million women across the globe whose wings have been crushed by FGM?

Keywords

survival
child abuse
faith
human rights
women's sexual identity
social issues
educational
female genital mutilation
woman survivor

Details

Status: Released
Release date: November 10, 2022
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: India, Nepal, United Kingdom
Production: Cam Buddha Films Ltd
Cast: Oznur Cifci,Bhasker Patel,Nisaro Karim,Tee Morris,Jetinder Summan,Tania Staite
Director: Lalit Bhusal
Producer: Lalit Bhusal
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
Homepage: Official site
IMDb: tt5772078